Iran Review | Yuram Abdullah Weiler: Irans Islamic Revolution remains as bellwether, even though attempts to emulate it have not yet succeeded. Journalist Eric Walberg In number theory, 41 is a prime number meaning it is not divisible by any number except itself and one. Similarly, the Islamic Revolution in Iran so far has been unique in its ...

Alwaght - The US President Donald Trump ostensibly looks forward to negotiating with Iran. Over the past week, he three times called for a face-to-face meeting with the Iranian officials. The calls come while he has formed one of the most anti-Iranian administrations since the Islamic revolution of 1979 removed the US ally Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Thousands of Iranian social media activists showed their protest at the BBC's role in the 1953 coup against the legal government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the dethroned King, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Iranians started trending #BBC ?????? (coup) and thousands of tweets pursued ...

Tehran, January 16, The Iran Project On January 16, 1979, when the Etellaat newspaper reportedthat Shah already left the country with a large bold headline of the Shah left, people poured into the streets, celebrating not Shah's"departure" but his "escape" from the country. In fact, they realized well that the anti-Shah resistance has forced the ...

Iranian people poured into the streets, celebrating Shah�s �escape� from the country on January, 1979.   By IRNA      

This is the story of the United States, the atom and Iran. It's the story of a historic nuclear agreement a story we may be tempted to think we know. After all, Congress just finished a chaotic debate that ended when lawmakers failed to block the deal. There was no solemn national moment of decision no up-or-down vote, as with a treaty or a war....

Hossein Roodsarabi recalled how 35 years ago he helped fellow revolutionaries in his hometown of Sabzevar loop a wire noose around the neck of a statue of the soon to be deposed Shah ofIran. A Mercedes-Benz was passing and the driver let us take his tow cable, he said on the eve of this months official anniversary of the 1979 uprising that swept aside ...

Last March, I sublet my Manhattan apartment. A woman called Shireen answered my ad, and when she came to visit I was surprised to learn that, despite her traditionally Persian name, she was Indian. Mentioning this, Shireen replied, But I am Persian! Im Zoroastrian. In India, she explained, Zoroastrians are called Parsis (literally, Persian) in reference ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- An office tower is subject to forfeiture because revenue from it was secretly funneled to a state-owned Iranian bank in violation of a U.S. trade embargo, a judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest made the forfeiture finding in Manhattan, ruling in a case brought by the U.S. government in 2008. The U.S. government ...

TEHRAN, Jun. 26 (MNA) A part of the private life of the former Iranian monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, has inspired a play entitled Flight to Darkness, which has gone on stage at Tehrans Av Theater. Director/writer Afshin Hashemi also drew inspiration from the French playwright and filmmaker Jean Cocteaus The Eagle Has Two Heads, and You Were Busy ...